“...what might it be able to do for businesses all over the world just beginning to understand its power?”
Wall Street is already trading like this. I have read where entire buildings on the west side of Manhattan are filled with computers and a few technicians and make automatic trades.
On the West Side so they get their information a few tenths of a milli-second sooner from the fiber-optic network before Wall Street does.
They didn’t help the election prediction markets. The big money was on Hillary